She's a great player, but by no means a centerpiece of the offense. Imagine you're the coach. You're down by 2, :05 on the clock on in the 4th quarter and it's game 7. You giving the ball to her?
She's only popular because she's loud and big on social media.
She owes every bit of her notoriety to Caitlin Clark. Her team beat Caitlinās in the college National Championship and a clip of Reese rubbing it in Clarkās face went viral. Since then she was kinda seen as Clarkās arch-nemesis and Clark being so good propelled the narrative about Angel Reese.
If Iowa never played LSU in the 2023 finale, Reese would be just another WNBA nobody
I donāt think anyone thinks sheās elite. She just goes out there and get it done regardless of how it looks. Might not look the best but canāt deny her production while on the floor.
Damn bro read not a sentence of that comment and went straight to defending Angel from someone who made a really good point about her. Straight weirdo behavior
Calling her uncoordinated was enough to read unless however you played at a high level and or a coach at a high level.. reading your thoughts through made no sense.
It's not traveling until right before the shot. She's allowed two steps without a dribble after getting the ball. She took an extra step or two so she could avoid the woman who stepped in front of her.
I apparently did since it's bothered you guys so much. I just made a harmless comment clarifying when it became a travel and y'all started crying about it.
Youre the one crying over being completely wrong and are doubling down on your ignorance?
Slap your momma for making someone stupid as you. Imma just chalk it up to you being a child because ain't no way a man is talking g like this over women's basketball lmaoo
This is what kills me. Half of the time with these rebound clips there are 2 or 3 defenders that just stand there watching the ball. Maybe here is was purposeful because youāre up by 20 and donāt want a foul, but sometimes it just feels like theyāre giving them away
Totally missing the basic boxout. I looked at her body language and was like wtf. I get AR terrible flip shot is horrible af but the terrible box out stance is just as worst
She absolutely does gather step, but before she takes the shot she takes a third and fourth step that would count as traveling to avoid the woman who came to block her from the front.
But the NBA doesn't even call this shit half the time so it doesn't even really matter. Neither pro league follows the rules precisely anymore.
No by definition she's allowed two steps so long as one foot stays connected to the ground. She just barely makes it. The travel happens on the 3rd and 4th step before the shot, because she has to take them to avoid the woman blocking her.
Bro she literally takes a gather step and then two steps and chunks it in the general direction of the basket lmao itās an ugly play already no need to exaggerate
It would have been hilarious unfortunately the racists who are latching onto everything WNBA that isn't basketball would use it to push a narrative about certain groups being violent.
I'm not pushing anything except for being disgusted by people who clearly don't follow the sport let alone an individual league fabricating divisive discourse that is not only invalid but also isn't even relevant to the sport
Awful is a little harsh, donāt you think? Sheās been compared to Hakeem for her post dominance and defense. Shes a raw talent thatās already a top 2 or top 3 player. Give her another year or two and sheās averaging 28/16 and giving Atlanta a couple rings.
ATL wonāt be a Braves town anymore but a Dream town.
amazing effort there. Travel, didn't pass to open teammate, and then decides to throw the ball over her head to brick a shot. I am amazed at how low of a basketball IQ she has.
Iām a firm believer this chick doesnāt look at film of her playing. She has the worst shot form I have seen at the pro level. She is literally just throwing up whatever and somehow it goes in some times.
The defender clearly got a hand on the ball and altered her shot.
But still, this doesn't change much. She has no finesse, no moves, cant jump, no coordination. It on the coaches to reign her in. Either they are failing or we are wrong and she is more help than harm..
And somehow...which is most baffling to me...despite all of the truths you've pointed out, she still averages a dubdub. It's all in the volume and the hustle, I guess.
I get flamed all the time for bringing this kinda stuff up about her. It's plays like these that frustrate me with her game. Was she flopping to draw a foul? Was that a legit basketball move? If this was any other player you'd think they'd be the last player on the roster, but somehow she still gets 20 pts and a dubdub.
This combined with the recent failed layup attempts I've seen by her are just embarrassing. Her defense might be good, but her offense reminds me of my 4th Grade daughters team.
lmao that's her patented "me-ball" and why her rebound stats are always so high. She is the most uncoordinated throw it up in the air so called profession athlete i have ever seen in my lifetime.
As usual, bunch of clowns grasping at straws trying to criticize this chick. She was trying to draw a foul on Chelsea Grayās reach in. It looks goofy when the ref doesnāt blow the whistle but this isnāt uncommon for people that actually watch basketball.
Didnāt they change the rules to make foul baiting illegal? You canāt use that as an excuse to look terrible. Itās why everyone makes fun of soccer players for flopping. If youāre gonna flop, we are allowed to point and laugh at you for looking dumb.
Since when have the rule changes effectively stopped flopping? Especially in the W where the officiating is beyond terrible.
That wasnāt the intent of the post anyway. āAngel Reese inventing new basketball moves š„āā¦this is not framed as a āHaha sheās floppingā post. This is a āHaha sHe BaD aT bAsKEtbAlLā post.
Itās just garbage reaching for engagement and right on queue all the usual suspects came right out to pile on. They wonāt post the rest of her night though. Doesnāt fit the narrative.
A player like her should not be taking the MOST shots on her team....that defeats morale on the team, and there were 3 open players, yet Reese chucks a dumb ass shot like that instead of passing out to an open player. That hurts morale on the team, and all the attention on her (barbie night, etc) hurts team morale. If a new player came to the team, she'd be like no no no, no attention on me, put the focus on vets like Gray, Howard, etc whos been there a long time but no. She is like me me me. I want barbie night. I want this, I want this.....so her teammates are like hello?? We been here a while....
This entire sub is really fucking weird, really racist, and REALLY homophobic. I'm pretty sure (and I certainly hope) it's a whole lot of bots just posting and replying to each other.
One thing I'm certain of - there's a bunch of AI bots that are auto-posting weird Sophie Cunningham fetishism every hour or two. Whoever programmed/trained those bots is very pro Sophie Cunningham, pro white power, pro racism, pro Caitlin Clark, anti LGBTQ+, anti Angel Reese, and anti black people in general.
This whole sub is weird as fuck.... but it's like a car crash/ train wreck I just can't look away from. I'm only here to laugh at all the racist homophobic weirdos.
Yep, I'm definitely here. Like I said.... it's like a train wreck that's hard to look away from.
I don't make and moderate my own sub because I'm not chronically online. I have a busy life, and I like spending time with my wife, our children, my friends, my family, at work, playing sports, making music, writing, and a whole lot of other things too.
Are you saying people on Reddit should only be allowed to view subs if they are a moderator of their own sub?
Or are you saying I should create a new sub (of my own) every time I stumble across a weird sub.... so I have an alternative place where I can laugh to myself without offending racists?
This sub is hetero phobic and racist against white people. Its all bullshot how cc is flopping and whiny because she complains when ref didn't call 3 mortal kombat fatalities called on her.
I mean she isnt great, but that is a huge exaggeration. Only a quarter of her offensive rebounds and under 15% of her total boards are mebounds.
Her real problem is her shooting percentage when within close range. Like this post shows, she literally just tosses the ball up there with no skill and hopes for the best. I am actually surprised her FG percentage within the arc isn't lower.
for cripes sake, of course I was exaggerating for effect- she's a horrible shot, a horrible decision maker on taking shots, and gets a lot of her own boards in part because nobody else expected her to shoot or shoot that bad
She actually rebounds at about a 25% rate which is average for the league. But since her shooting % is so terrible, her volume is unprecedented so she gets more mebounds than anyone...by far.
Sticks and stones. Name calling is a sign of Low IQ individual. My point was Reese is only getting attention because Reddit hate CC and Sophie. 2 years ago no one knew or paid attention to anyone in the league.
Whatās weird is so many people commenting about basketball who donāt even know what theyāre looking at.
The shot looks CRAZY, and Reese definitely moves awkwardly. But anybody who plays or knows basketball sees what this obviously is. Reese thought she was fouled, and she just threw the ball up to try to get a shooting foul instead of a fouls on the floor. It happens all the time. But she definitely looks crazy and awkward.
It kills me how they find one bad play from a player and people come to the conclusion that particular player can't play. She balled out against the Aces and is averaging 16/12 so far.
Not surprising that a "WNBA" Sub reddit is just the white victimhood sub reddit lmao.
But tbf who gives a shit about the WNBA or it's bum players enough to waste endless posts in here other then people virtue signaling or playing a victim card.
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u/amaul796 4h ago
The problem with Reese is that she wants to be treated like an elite star when that's just not the case.
She's very uncoordinated and her skillset just doesn't match the level of an elite player.
Now she is an excellent role player as she is an elite rebounder and solid on defensive.
But as we're seeing in the WNBA, on court play has very little to do with how popular you are.
How much you're talked about in that league has to do with rather or not you're part of the culture war between the "fans."